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Swarthmore, Pa., Oct. 30-John Livingston Lowes Ph.D. '05 professor of English at Harvard will be the first George Eastman Visiting Professor to the University of Oxford, it was announced here today by Frank Aydelotte, president of Swarthmore College and American secretary to the Rhodes trustees. Professor Lowes will lecture at Oxford during the academic year 1930-31. His appointment was officially announced in the Oxford Gazette today...
Professor John Livingston Lowes, who has been chosen to inaugurate the professorship, has been professor of English at Harvard since 1918, and was dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences during 1924-25. He is the author of many notable contributions to English scholarship and criticism, among them being "Convention and Revolt in Poetry" 1919, and "The Road to Zandau", 1927. He will lecture at Oxford in the Honour School of English Language and Literature...
...which financed the Institute, because Dr. Wilmer saved her eyesight six years ago. Lacking the necessary millions herself, she coaxed Dr. Wilmers Negro office servant William to give her a list of rich former patients. There were 338 of them. All - people like Mr. and Mrs. Breckinridge, Herbert Livingston Satterlee (Manhattan lawyer), Ira Clifton Copley (Illinois publisher), Mrs. Edith Oliver Rea (Pittsburgh iron and steel manufacturer), Joseph Pulitzer (whose father was blind), Daniel Willard (B. & O. R. R. president)-contributed handsomely. The Wilmer Institute with its professional staff and equipments outclasses any like organization in the U. S. and ranks...
...introduced by John Livingston Lowes, Professor of English...
...apparent source: Under Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills...